Importing from Japan

You’ll usually get an email from the shipping agency letting you know your vessel is landing in 2 weeks time or 10 days or whatever. You then contact a customs broker who will clear the car from customs on your behalf.

You just email them the bill of lading, invoice, export cert, proof of payment, screenshot of auction selling price. They will tell you how much you owe and you transfer the money. I can give you a contact for this if you want.

Paying the shipping agency and customs broker is around €200

From there you just wait a few days after the boat lands and your car will usually be cleared. Your given a SAD document and your car is released and can be collected. You just arrive and give your name and it will be on the system that your car is cleared. Best to print to SAD document as this is your proof that its been cleared.

Also just to let you know, if you have only just bought the car recently it probably won’t ship in the next week. I’m having cars sitting at the docks for 6 weeks before they ship. Container prices have increased so everyone is using RoRo now

This is the customs clearance crowd that I use, they charge me €80 per car. Just contact them once you get an arrival date of your boat. They won’t be able to help until the boat has an arrival date

https://carclear.ie/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIj-aR6on-8gIVQrTtCh28GA21EAAYASAAEgKXqfD_BwE

Best of luck with your new purchase. Can I ask if you used an agent or done the whole auction process yourself?

Hi, is anybody know which company provide roro shipping from Japan to Ireland ?

I already bought a car 5 weeks ago and it stay in port KOBE 4 weeks already in Japan , the seller said that he didn't how to deliver the car to Ireland.

ARUACUP company said that there are no space and most likely will not be.

Can you please help

Oh my god, I bought a hybrid car, there is a battery, which will die without recharging

the delivery times you mentioned are terrible😱

Makes no difference if its a hybrid or not. The battery will die on any car coming from Japan. A simple jump start will solve it

  Car is mitsubishi outlander phev and I worry about hybrid battery it cost more than 5k

Oh, it was my bad idea , bring car from Japan. I will think that it will be so you said

Thanks

Hi, yes, it's unbelievable, but after six months, car start shipping to Belgium and will be redirected to Dublin port

No wonder the prices remain high

Is it really worth the hassle

as if are there serious savings to be made by cutting out the middle man?

I’ve noticed most of the jap imports have the basic trim level on DD and Adverts.ie etc

Yes. You can buy lots of stuff simply not available here.

Carfromjapan is one of my favorite websites to browse and ponder. Especially in the vintage section and the sub 3k all in section, some really odd yokes turn up. I'm really liking the kei trucks!

I've imported from the US before but not from Japan.

Is it v difficult- I’ve read the threads but still on the sideline tbh

rip off prices here in Cork in comparison with all other parts of the country im at a crossroad whether to get another loan for a car so am considering japan

That's the price landed to dublin port. i have to pay the vat, customs and vrt after that. The issue i think is down to the revenue not having a reference vehicle here that they can price against so its giving a 100k valuation for the car here

I've seen ones on DD for €20K, that's the 2020 hybrid model, I had found a 2021 new facelift model but Yeah I know, it just doesn't add up. It seems to me I'd nearly get the same car here for not much more